How rare is the name Janine?

31,970 people in the United States have the first name Janine, about 1 in 9,447. It ranks #1,213 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

JANINE

#1,213

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
31,970
About
1 in 9,447
This common or more
72.7%
Who bears it

Of the 31,970 people named Janine, 76.9% reported their origin as White, 8.1% as Black and 7.5% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Janine peaked in 1960, when 1,380 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19142025
Peak year
1960
Births that year
1,380
In 2025*
21 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 33,519 babies have been given the name since 1914. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Janine by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #476. The largest share of babies named Janine, 39.7%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).

1910s#8,01122
1920s#7,16256
1930s#2,169371
1940s#1,1741,368
1950s#6475,956
1960s#47611,769
1970s#6816,067
1980s#8804,452
1990s#1,6562,084
2000s#3,856812
2010s#6,342422
2020s#9,307140
Greatest Generation 1901–270.1%
Silent Generation 1928–452.3%
Baby boom 1946–6439.7%
Generation X 1965–8035.8%
Millennials 1981–9616.8%
Generation Z 1997–124%
2013 and later1.3%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Janine is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Janine has been most common in New York (2.7×), New Jersey (2.4×), and Massachusetts (1.9×), and least common in Kentucky (0.09×).

29,735 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Janine

#1,211 Efrain · 32,016#1,212 Brielle · 31,992#1,214 Ciara · 31,895#1,215 Reid · 31,675

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Janine, most common first.

#3,475 Janina · 5,970#5,446 Janene · 3,158#15,769 Jannine · 725#18,007 Jamine · 603#30,674 Janin · 283#39,517 Janiene · 191#45,183 Janyne · 151#47,034 Janinne · 140

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